Kaillie Humphries and Jasmine Jones won bronze in the 2-woman bobsled competition Saturday, giving Humphries, the 40-year-old pilot, her second medal of these Games and preventing a German sweep.
Laura Nolte, who led the monobob competition going into the second, third and fourth runs before making a mistake that cost her the gold, finally got her first-place podium finish. It is her second consecutive gold medal in the 2-woman event. She and her brakewoman, Deborah Levi won Saturday in 3 minutes, 48.46 seconds, while teammates Lisa Buckwitz and Neele Schuten took silver in 3:48.99. Humphries and Jones were third at 3:49.21.
Humphries, who has more Olympic gold medals than any other female bobsledder in history, won bronze in monobob earlier this week, her fifth Olympic medal. Saturday was her sixth.
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